At the height of the Cold War, prominent Soviet climatologist Vladimir Aleksandrov vanished while on a trip to Spain, in what was initially thought of as a defection. No trace of him was ever found. This is an investigation featuring interviews with his friends, family, colleagues, and political players at the time. They paint a tragic portrait of a man who was committed to science and his family, and was caught in a dangerous clash of ideologies. He became an important chess piece in a complex game of one-upmanship in a world on the brink of war. Like Icarus, he ascended very fast, and did not heed the warnings. He disappeared in Madrid on March 31, 1985. Now there is a new battlefield: to save the world from climate change. We will now learn how scientific theories are weaponized for political gain.

A disaster film.

In a search of a peaceful retreat, a writer will find something both achingly familiar and long forgotten.

On 13th December 1974, Slava Kurilov jumped off a Soviet cruise ship in the Philippine Sea. People will consider his journey to the shore — over three days of swimming in complete solitude in the middle of the ocean — a betrayal, a defection, an act of bravery, a protest...but for Kurilov that jump was one thing only — a leap into total freedom.

Ironic and philosophical film. Here everything is not as it really is. And this opens up a new essence of all things.

The heroine of the film is a young woman from Uzbekistan, fleeing from store slavery and dreaming of returning her son.

A philosophical tragicomedy based on the quarrel of a director and a producer while they are sitting at their own movie premiere.

1943 year. Alma-Ata. The hero of the film is a young Michurin fruit grower who revives a medicinal apple variety and investigates a strange crime. The script was written based on the book by Mikhail Zoshchenko "Before the Sunrise".

When four middle-aged American rockers hole up at a farmhouse in the serene and scenic Northern Ontario to record one last album, the tangle of relationships within the band turns deadly.

Some time ago they would come here to walk their dogs, play with their kids or jog. Today they are two hostile parties fighting over a patch of ground in a park. Every Sunday half of them come to pray by a wooden cross, and another half is there to defend a small spot of land, which they want to stay public. Who could have imagined such a confrontation in a country which had been fully secular, even atheistic for decades? Still, a collision between orthodox believers and local dwellers, who don’t want to have a new church instead of a park or a public garden is quite common in the Russian capital these days. “200 Churches” development project started by Russian Orthodox Church in cooperation with Moscow government provoked several severe conflicts in the city.

A day from the life of the Muscovite Yuri, who is stuck in a remote, northern village. he should have been back in the city for a long time, and yet he wanders through sad, deserted, autumnal fields and forests. his wife and his best friend force him to return to his usual life. But it seems that Yuri is comprehending something very important. he abandons those he loves and remains one to one with nature. But the world of nature plays by its own rules.

Heroes call a taxi to throw out the accumulated. The new mobile psychologist service is gaining popularity as the feeling of loneliness, longing and meaninglessness of life grows with the passengers of the future. With this set, “patients” sit in the car to the silent driver, one of whom confesses: “Sometimes I feel like a robot. But not more often than ordinary people. ”

Film about the order of things: everyone has his own.

The story takes place against the backcloth of the world sauna championships in Helsinki as a Russian man tries to earn some much needed money.

This film is a very short story about a former rescue worker returning from Tokyo – a man who is quite successful in his everyday life, and who, after hearing about another earthquake in Japan, dropped everything and went there to help. He is flying back home in an almost empty plane. Indeed, many regular flights have been canceled, and the ones that are still operated do not sell out. He is flying back with a very elderly Japanese man he had just saved – the man is now all alone in the world, his family had died. And the two men somehow clicked. Perhaps because our main character is also lonely. Also flying with them on the plane are those who are no longer here.Those who did not survive the disaster. Together with the characters, their past moves through space – their memories, their world. The world that is no less, but perhaps even more important for them than the reality.

A fight en route to an airport leads an ordinary Moscow couple to split on a whim. With Nikita ending up in Thailand and Zhenya in Berlin, both find themselves in two separate love triangles, inadvertently causing chaos in others' relationships as they attempt to fix theirs. But even continents apart, their lives turn out to be more intricately connected than they realize.

The amazing and tragic life story of the Russian Paralympic judoka Oleg Kretsul. Having lost his sight in a car accident, Kretsul did not give up the sport and was subsequently able to win Olympic gold at the Paralympics in Beijing.

Six various novels united in a one movie.

“Bloodrop” is an experimental short directed by Aleksei Popogrebsky. Originally part of the Experiment 5ive omnibus, hence the black envelope with the picture inside, which had to be the common element of all 5 films.

Do you know what goes on in the head of someone who walks past you?